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Labours. For which cause, the inhabitants of those parts call them, 
The two pillars of that God; and doe verily beleeve, that by certaine 
draines and ditches digged within the Continent, the maine Ocean, before 
excluded, made way and was let in, to make the Mediteranean seas, 
where before was firme land: and so by that meanes the very face of 
the whole earth is cleane altered.’ The origin of the legend is probably 
to be sought in the fact that the Phoenicians were the great navigators 
of the ancient world, and that Melkarth, the Greek Hercules, was their 
tutelary deity. In any case ‘the pillars of Hercules,’ which, like the 
ultima Thule of a later period, once denoted the extreme limit of geo- 
graphical discovery in one direction, are used metaphorically by Bacon 
to denote the limit of any investigation whatever. [10] Lat. sermone 
quodam activo et masculo. [12] ground: the foundation or basis of an 
argument. [16] supplieth: Lat. succurrit. [17] direction: Perhaps we 
should read ‘ soundness of direction,’ as before. Lat. consilii prudentia et 
sanitas. [Ib.| S. Augustine, Serm. clxix. (vol. v. p. 569, ed. Ant. 1700): 
Melior it claudus in via, quam cursor preter viam. See Nov. Org. i. 61. 
In the Promus (vii. p. 200) it stands, Melior claudus in via quam cursor 
extra viam. Ben Jonson, in his Sylva, quotes it in a different form, 
‘ Aegidius cursu superat—A cripple in the way out-travels a footman, or 
a post out of the way:’ St. Giles being the patron saint of cripples. 
[19] Eccl, x, ro.. Quoted again in a modified form in the treatise Of 
the Interpretation of Nature (iii. p. 223): ‘for as Salomon saith excel- 
lently, The fool putteth to more strength, but the wise man considereth which 
way, signifying the election of the mean to be more material than the 
multiplication of endeavour.’ 
P. 77. [7] accomplishments: Lat. ornamentis, [20] discharge of 
cares: Lat. vacationem a curis, [23] Virg. Georg. iv. 8. [27] and that 
without delusion or imposture: Omitted in the translation. See note to 
p- 21, l. 16. 
P. 78. [9] Cic. Orat. post reditum in Senatu, xii. 30: Nam difficile est 
non aliquem, nefas quemquam preterire. [11] Phil. iii. 13. [14] I find 
strange: Lat. demiror. [18] the ancient fable: The fable of the belly 
and the members told by Menenius Agrippa, Livy, ii. 32. See Shake- 
speare, Cor, i. 1. 99, &c. [24] universality: the study of es princi- 
ples. Lat. contemplationibus universalibus. 
P. 79. [1] professory learning: the teaching which has for its object 
one special branch of study. [2] malign aspect and influence: This 
metaphor is derived from the old astrology, in which the planets were 
supposed to exercise control over human destinies. See Trench, English 
Past and Present, Lect. iv. p. 180, ed. 4. [15] The Lat. adds presertim 
apud nos. [17] Readers: i.e. lecturers. [22, 23] to appropriate his 
whole labour, and to continue his whole age in that function and at- 
tendance: i.e. to devote his whole energy and to spend his whole life in 
